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2021 Hale County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Hale County, AL went without power for an average of 11.4 hours, a total of 90K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 705th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hale County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 4, 2021 19:00 | May 6, 2021 19:30 | 2d | 3,008 | 22K |
| 2 | March 17, 2021 19:30 | March 18, 2021 21:00 | 1d 1h | 2,690 | 16K |
| 3 | June 12, 2021 22:30 | June 14, 2021 04:00 | 1d 5h | 2,056 | 3,939 |
| 4 | September 1, 2021 20:00 | September 2, 2021 02:15 | 6h 15m | 1,029 | 2,896 |
| 5 | March 25, 2021 17:15 | March 29, 2021 16:30 | 3d 23h | 799 | 17K |
| 6 | August 30, 2021 19:45 | August 31, 2021 15:00 | 19h 15m | 689 | 1,287 |
| 7 | May 7, 2021 05:00 | May 7, 2021 09:15 | 4h 15m | 589 | 233 |
| 8 | March 23, 2021 22:15 | March 24, 2021 14:45 | 16h 30m | 517 | 3,648 |
| 9 | May 10, 2021 06:45 | May 10, 2021 11:15 | 4h 30m | 447 | 681 |
| 10 | June 19, 2021 13:45 | June 20, 2021 20:00 | 1d 6h | 405 | 657 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 43 reached 100+ customers, 4 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Hale County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Black Warrior Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 81% of Alabama's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,916 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Hale County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hale County, AL annual power outage report, 2021, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2021/alabama/hale-county